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Seems like serious overstatement to say "[Project Veritas] brought down the biggest international collectivist organization on the planet" if you're referring
by smcin 3y ago
Seems like serious overstatement to say "[Project Veritas] brought down the biggest international collectivist organization on the planet" if you're referring to [the national US branch of] ACORN.
They did cause the national US ACORN organization to be dissolved [0], but individual US state orgs (CA, NY etc.) continue [1], new organizations such as the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action, and non-US orgs continue unaffected.
I don't even know that ACORN was the "biggest international collectivist organization on the planet", certainly not one very cohesive organization.
As to "This whole case is about people recording each other in private", it's not about mere random invasion of privacy or prurience, O'Keefe/Veritas did try to claim a public-interest journalistic defense.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ACORN_in_the_United_States#ACORN-affiliated_groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ACORN_in_the_United...